A Man Without Friends

When Shelley Carnes, caught in a Southwest storm, sought shelter in a deserted stone house, she met for the first time the man who was to dominate her every thought and emotion. Richard Trevelyan, convicted for the murder of his wife, sentenced to the death house and released when one vote hung the jury at his second trial, was set free in a world which considered him a brutal murderer. The sordid, bitter truth behind the death of his wife, Laura, did not come to the knowledge of anyone until together Shelley and Treve had gone through an emotional ordeal which shook them to the depths of their souls.